Vishwas Manral

Founder and CEO at Precize Inc & Fellow at Cloud Security Alliance

Vishwas Manral is the Founder and CEO of Precize Inc., an Infrastructure workflow and governance company helping enterprises safely adopt AI-driven infrastructure operations by providing deep context across cloud, CI/CD, identity, and operational workflows. Precize enables security and platform teams to understand who changed what, why it matters, and how to remediate risk appropriately across environments, accelerating secure cloud and AI adoption at scale. 

Vishwas is the Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Silicon Valley Chapter and Co-Chair of CSA’s Serverless Working Group, where he works closely with industry leaders to advance practical cloud security standards and guidance. He is a frequent speaker and contributor on topics including agentic AI, cloud governance, and modern infrastructure security. Previously, Vishwas served as Head of Cloud Native Security and Chief Technologist at McAfee Enterprise and FireEye, following the acquisition of his startup NanoSec in 2019.

He has founded multiple companies, including Ionos Networks and LiveReach Media, and currently advises startups and growth-stage companies such as VectorEdge, Graphiant, Bootup Ventures, and H.A.C.K., Karnataka’s first cybersecurity accelerator. With a deep technical background, Vishwas has authored early versions of MITRE ATT&CK for Containers and contributed to 30+ RFCs and industry standards across networking and security. His work has influenced widely deployed technologies such as IPsec and DVPN, now foundational components of modern enterprise infrastructure.